Goodnight Ladies
January 22, 2008
Suzanne Pleshette 1937-2008 Lois Nettleton 1929-2008
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Suzanne Pleshette 1937-2008 Lois Nettleton 1929-2008
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Brad Renfro 1982-2008. A true dirty-faced angel and that rarest of gems, a child actor who could give Brando a run for his money. R.I.P.
Continue readingShortbus.Director: John Cameron Mitchell. Arriving before HBO’s coital Tell Me That You Love Me, this rather sweet exploration of relationships set in a post 9/11 New York also uses explicit sex as one of its many narrative tools. The result is often sexy and funny (see Francois Ozon) but also a little sad in its…
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Yep, Norma Desmond, they definitely had faces back then. But today’s actors have eyes, and as two of the holiday’s notable releases demonstrate, you’d do well not to be caught in their headlights. Talk about bogey men: in Sweeney Todd, the trajectory of the title character can be found in the ravaged circles lining Johnny Depp’s customarily demented orbs, etched as…
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Deborah Kerr 1921-2007 That skin. That hair. Those eyes, juggling panic, earnestness and compassion. Black Narcissus was the first film I saw by the matchless team of Pressburger and Powell, and in it, Kerr was her own special effect, careening about in the damndest nun’s habit this side of Sister Bertrille. Whether dealing with the…
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Michaelangelo Antonioni 1912-2007 photo Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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Ingmar Bergman 1918-2007 (photo, Pressens Bild, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images)
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So this is my Charles Nelson Reilly story: we met almost ten years ago at the York Theater Company’s Oscar Hammerstein Award presentation to Peter Stone. That night, Charles and I were asked to recreate a 10 minute scene from Skyscaper, one of his Broadway triumphs; I was to play a delivery man, the straight foil to Reilly’s…
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